"cannot endure as much. Let your pleasant, cheerful words ever be like sunbeams in your family. The fruits of self-control, thoughtfulness, and painstaking on your part will be a hundredfold. Parents have no right to bring a gloomy cloud over the happiness of their children by faultfinding or severe censure for trifling mistakes. Actual wrong and sin should be made to appear just as sinful as it is, and a firm, decided course should be pursued to prevent its recurrence. Children should be impressed with a sense of their wrongs, yet they should not be left in a hopeless state of mind, but with a degree of courage that they can improve and gain your confidence and approval. 1T 401.1"
"And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."
Both passages address the importance of proper parenting and avoiding actions that negatively impact children. Ephesians 6:4 warns against provoking children to wrath, while the EGW passage advises against faultfinding and severe censure, aligning with the same principle of nurturing children's well-being.
"A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken."
Both passages discuss the impact of a cheerful or sorrowful disposition, particularly within a family context. EGW's emphasis on 'cheerful words' and avoiding a 'gloomy cloud' directly echoes the sentiment of Proverbs 15:13.
"Some parents mistake in giving their children too much liberty. They sometimes have so much confidence in them that they do not see their faults. It is wrong to allow children, at some expense, to visit at a distance, unaccompanied by their parents or guardians. It has a wrong influence upon the children. They come to feel that they are of considerable consequence and that certain privileges belong to them, and if these are not granted, they think themselves abused. They refer to children who go and come, and have many privileges, while they have so few. 1T 401.2"
"The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame."
Both passages discuss the dangers of giving children too much freedom and the importance of discipline. Proverbs 29:15 states that a child left to himself brings shame, while the EGW passage warns against allowing children too much liberty and unsupervised activities.